Year: 2010
Strategic travel
Has your travel budget been getting you down? Or should I say, has the absence of a travel budget been getting you down? I’ve written here about what it takes to work remotely, and I’ve been thinking lately about how to […]
SCP monthly cataloging update (May 2010)
The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) monthly cataloging update for May 2010 is now available at: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/updates/update2010.html#may2010
Issues in Applied Linguistics Now Published in eScholarship
eScholarship is pleased to announce the publication of volume 17, issues 1 & 2 of UCLA’s Issues in Applied Linguistics. Initially launched in 1989 as a print-only journal, this volume marks the journal’s first digital publication. Issues in Applied Linguistics […]
CDL Archiving Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Websites
The California Digital Library is using the Web Archiving Service to archive sites related to the gulf oil spill. While CDL’s primary role in Web archiving is to provide tools and support to collection specialists, we also use the service […]
Webinar of "Merritt" repository development
UC3 is developing a new Digital Preservation Repository based on a set of curation micro-services. (We’ve named this development effort “Merritt” after Lake Merritt (http://www.oaklandnet.com/parks/parks/lakemerritt.asp), just a few blocks from our office.) We’ve reached a development milestone, and held a […]
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library Finishes Digitization
Working together with CDL and Google, UCSD has finished digitizing nearly 100,000 volumes from the collections of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library (http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sio/) – the world’s largest oceanographic library. Included are works on marine biology, climate science, ecology, geology, and many other subjects. The collection […]
Patricia Cruse: Digital Preservation Pioneer
CDL Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3), Patricia Cruse, was profiled in the May 2010 issue of the Library of Congress Preservation Newsletter, where she was dubbed a “digital preservation pioneer”. The article also links to a […]
New features for OAC Contributors: Dashboard and Search Box
Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce the release of two new features for OAC contributing institutions: the OAC contributor dashboard and an OAC search box for institution websites. OAC Contributor Dashboard The OAC contributor dashboard is a central, personalized […]
UC President’s book now available via open access in eScholarship
By Elise Proulx Publishing Group Outreach & Marketing Coordinator The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library announces the open access digital publication of Mark G. Yudof’s book When Government Speaks: Politics, Law, and Government Expression in America. The book […]
5 Steps to Managing Your Performance Evaluation
Most of us shudder when it’s time for our annual performance review. Not only is it time-consuming but it can also be stressful, since you don’t know whether you and your manager will see eye-to-eye on your performance. You actually […]